The Original Buffalo Bills: A History of the All-America Football Conference Team, 1946-1949

More than a decade before the modern NFL franchise existed, an unrelated football team played in Buffalo. This is the history of that earlier, separate, now defunct Bills team that played in the All-America Football Conference (AAFC) from 1946 to 1949. This original Bills club was one of the AAFC's strongest teams in its final two seasons, 1948 and 1949. When the AFL granted Buffalo an expansion franchise in 1959, its owner named the new team "Bills" as a tribute to this earlier club, but t...